Re: several messages about content sniffing in HTML

Boris Zbarsky wrote:
>> Where does it stop? Are you planning to add new special cases any time 
>> some Linux distro screws things up in a new way?
> 
> If everyone does the sniffing in the spec and no other, then pages would 
> get fixed and there wouldn't be a problem here.  The issue right now is 
> that some UAs do more permissive sniffing than that (e.g. sniffing all 
> text/plain responses, period).

Sounds like after all draconian handling has a purpose :-) (even if the 
draconian handling itself is defined in HTML5)

BR, Julian